World weather shifts off balance
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12/01/2010
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Financial Times (London)
Trains, planes and cars halted by snow and ice. Gas and electricity supplies rationed. Sensitive crops ruined. Boats frozen into waterways.
For weeks, images of the coldest weather for decades have filled the media across Europe, Asia and North America.
But there is an alternative weather story. In much of the Canadian Arctic - and across north Africa and the Middle East - temperatures have been 10